of pottery were present; also some transported boulders 15-20 inches in diameter. The pottery thick, smooth, brown, and evidently from vessels shallow in shape. The natives of the Lusancays today have very little pottery, which they buy elsewhere, and it is very thin and of different design. Will try to get a position for the atolls from Riley in Samarai next week. Tinker shot a cuscus and a big female [illegible] Uromys last night. Lionel with and Rus , with a 14-foot dinghy and outboard motor borrowed from Kedidia, tried for dugong after dark but did not sight any. Lionel shot a crocodile. Nothing in traps. Six Pogonomyss bought from a Kedidia plantation boy. The weather has been against us at this campThat and the delay we had in getting here have made it expensive for what we have gainedin collections. These number 8 species of mammals, of which the 2 Rattus probably are most valuable. I still have some cataloguing of odds and ends of botanical collections to do. Results have been poor, however, and I was not able to see a good development of the primary savannas of the peninsula. Insect collecting has been about average, with Odonata best represented. Two or three snakes and other herps have come in. In all, 18 species of mammals were collected on Fergusson. Total mammal specimens about 220. Total botanical collection for the trip to date are just on 1100 numbers. Saturday July 7: The alarm sounded and I lit a lamp at 3:40 this morning. Weather threatening , but no rain falling. The crew of the Kedeluma hard to arouse and it was five o'clock before we had our remaing belongings aboardand 5:15 before we left the anchorage at Deidei. Arrived in Samarai about 4 PM. Had only a little rain on the trip. The weather changed to NE and E, moderating the sea, and we had an unexpected degree of comforton the Kedeluma. Clouds on the mountains of the D'Entrecasteaux and the mainland, plus rain squalls there, spoiled views and photography. Dusty and Ailsa returned from Australia, via Carr's Air a nd Milne Bay (special flight) at 10:30 pm. I am staying at Dusty's house, Rus at the boarding house("Crescent Guest House," of Mrs. Julie Hansen. Samarai Sunday July 3: Weather about easterly; occasional showers; patchy sunlight - the most sun I have seen in a week. Worked on a stores order to present to Buntings in the morning; we will take two months supplies (foodstuffs) to Misimand replenish stocks in about a month after arrival there. There were callers in the house much of the day. Talk mainly of interest too local for recording. Learn that the airport or air-drome on the mainland just across China Strait from Samarai, which was under construction when I arrived in the country, has been abandoned as too costly. About 10,000 pounds had been spent; estimated cost 40,000. Qantas is reduced to two old CatalinaOPEYs for services such as the weekly run to Samarai, on which land planes can not be used. It is promble-matical what will happen when these old ships have to be scrapped, which cannot be long.Qantas may be willing to to give up the Samarai service in favor of Carrsair, which is reported to be willing to do the run with a float plandto be purchased from the U.S. with government assistance (the Samarai mail and passenger service is rated as an essential service). Monday, July 9: Glorious sunny day after hard showers just before daylight. Weather SE. clear Put in the stores order and waited more than half the day for Bunting's store manto clear working space for us in the godown. Paid each of the boys 3 pounds: what they have coming to them in Sunday money.